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Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Project of the Year: Health Care
Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital initiated a phased, two-year,
fast-track replacement hospital and parking structure in west-suburban
Wheaton, Ill.
The facility is located on a four-acre site on a 65-acre
campus, and hospital services and operations were ongoing
during construction.
The 175,000-sq.-ft., three-floor facility has 120 private,
inpatient rooms, each offering a view of the wooded campus
or gardens. The building will also have a partial basement
and enclosed penthouse.
Healing Patients with Design
The project goal is to build a sanctuary of healing.
Patients will be located in one of six healing and treatment
communities anchored by centrally located nursing stations.
The communities serve patients who have experienced strokes,
neuromuscular disorders, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries
and pediatrics.
The hospital features a two-story main lobby and 15-ft.-high
cascading waterfall, thereby focusing on patients' mind, body
and spirit.
Other features include a two-story chapel, glass-walled cafeteria
overlooking the Labyrinth Garden, two-story chapel with simple
altar, custom-designed stained glass windows and semi-private
balcony providing access to the chapel for patients on the upper
floors. The pediatrics section contains therapeutic and recreational
opportunities, including toys educational video games, big-screen
TVs and computers.
Environmental elements include healing gardens, open-air tree-
and plant-filled Enabling Garden, Labyrinth Garden that is based
on the original labyrinths at Charte Cathedral in France and
accommodations to move the existing, mature trees.
Diagnostic and treatment equipment will allow physicians to
expand their specialty care in areas that include audiology,
aquatic therapy, biofeedback, driver rehabilitation, golf medicine,
hand therapy, lymphedema care, occupational and physical therapy,
pelvic pain care, psychiatry, psychology, speech and language
pathology, swallowing and voice, therapeutic recreation and
vestibular rehabilitation.
The project's first phase included utility relocations, oxygen
storage tank relocation, temporary surface parking and selective
demolition operations to begin the construction of the four-level,
precast concrete parking structure.
The 517-car structure is designed to be barrier free and will
be fully handicapped accessible, including a ratio of 10 percent
handicapped staff allotment with 8-ft., 2-in. van vertical clearance
heights. The parking structure attaches to the existing hospital
and matches existing floor heights.
'Nourishing Body and Spirit'
The Wheaton Franciscan Sister believe "The land makes
possible great healing, nourishing body and spirit."
As a result, preserving the facility's 60-acre natural environment
was critically important. This was an issue because the new
hospital and parking structure are twice the size of the existing
facility.
Plans called for the new structures to be built on top of existing
open parking lots.
The building sites were adjacent to numerous mature oak, hickory
and a variety of other species, some estimated to be 200 to
250 years old. These trees required special care, fertilization
and maintenance during construction to ensure their health.
An independent arborist was hired to collaborate with the campus'
arborist and grounds crew on the care of those trees.
But several trees fell within the building's footprint.
The sisters requested that the trees be harvested and milled
so the lumber could be used in the new chapel's stained-glass
window frames, altar, tabernacle and some furniture.
Budgeting the Project
The project's principal obstacle was its budget, which was fixed
and firm-no additional funding sources would be available. Initial
project estimates placed the project over budget, as well as
subsequent market conditions influencing higher bids.
Through an exhaustive, six-month value engineering exercise,
Gilbane Building Co., the construction manager, developed about
$8 million in options.
About $3 million of these options were approved and implemented,
resulting in significant budget savings to Marianjoy but without
sacrificing the program. The new building is a post-tensioned
concrete structure and required extensive coordination efforts.
The building type tested the project schedule due to the time
requirements for constructing a post-tensioned concrete building
and the care required to ensure the imbeds, sleeves and slab
penetrations were in place at the time of casting.
Jury Comments: "The project seemed to affect the community.
We like that they tried to keep as many trees as possible. It's
a very pristine setting. This must have been a difficult project.
The Franciscan sisters are very particular on what goes on.
We've not huge fans of the aesthetics, but given what they had
before, this is an upgrade."
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